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PREM19/1762
France (Visits to UK by President Mitterrand) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2019 Feb 6
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 239
Any docs withheld? 7

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86 Oct 15 We Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Mitterrand seeking to upstage Chirac, Reagan's nuclear weapons proposals, EC issues, agriculture, Middle East] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 15 We Major France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("President Mitterrand's Visit") [main focus to be post-Reykjavik and EC issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 15 Fr Major France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Intergovernmental Conference discussions on: environment and technology, resource transfer, EC Parliament, Commission powers] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 14 Th Major France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Participation") [revised list of plenary attendees] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Oct 16 We Major France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November 1985") [French domestic situation, east/west relations, EC, bilateral relations, Channel link] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 4 Sa Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("President Mitterrand") [Mitterrand's motives: put Chirac in the shade, discuss east/west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 5 Tu Major France: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (President Mitterrand's visit) [Rainbow Warrior affair, New Caledonia, UN Falklands resolution, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 14 Th Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [want impression to go out of "a reasonably functioning Anglo-French cooperation"] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 11 Mo Major France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [French motives, Channel link, Falklands, Inter-Governmental conference, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 13 Mo Major France: Cabinet Office briefing for Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's meeting with President Mitterrand") [points on the EC to keep in mind: relations with France, European Council, EC financing] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 15 Fr Major France: Moore PS briefing for Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [Channel link texts, EC shipping policy] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Sep 30 Tu Major France: George Younger letter to Andre Giraud (defence issues) [possible cooperation on politico/military and strategic matters, on technical matters] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 15 We Major France: FCO briefing ("M. Mitterrand's Visit, 16 October") [EC topics, terrorism, drugs and immigration, Japan] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 17 Su Major France: Howe minute for MT ("Your Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Intergovernmental Conference discussions on: environment and technology, resource transfer, EC Parliament, Commission powers] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 16 Sa Major France: Howe minute for MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [points to discuss: arms control negotiations, Inter-Governmental conference, Eureka, Channel link, defence] [declassified Feb 2019]
86 Oct 14 Tu Major France: UKE Paris telegram 1026 to FCO (1146Z) ("President Mitterrand's Visit to London, 16 October") [French internal situation, EC Council and financing, east-west and arms control, terrorism, Middle East] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 14 Th Major France: UKE Paris telegram 993 to FCO (1701Z) ("The Anglo French Summit") [Mitterrand press conference prompted by French internal issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 8 Fr Major France: UKE Paris telegram 962 to FCO (1812Z) ("Prospects for the Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [Anglo-French relations in "a rough patch"] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 14 Th Major France: UKREP Brussels telegram 3845 to FCO (1730Z) ("The Inter-Governmental Conference (IGC)") [possible treaty revision, confusion from plethora of proposals, tactic of constructive cooperation] [declassified Feb 2019]
85 Nov 18 Mo Major France: Home Office record of conversation (Hurd-Joxe) [domestic terrorism and Irish situation, Anglo-Irish Agreement, New Caledonia] [declassified Feb 2019]